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Each year we ask a filmmaker to create an original minute-long masterpiece: the LSFF trailer.
This year, we asked Hugh Clegg, and here is the hilarious, labour-of-love result - an ode to
@shittyrigs
and to filmmaking in all of its scrappy, DIY glory.
(subs:
@MatchboxCine
)
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London Short Film Festival goes online! This January, we've:
🎟️ Special curations of Videofreex, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos,
@fringefilmfest
++
🎟️ All tickets <£5 + industry panels free!
🎟️ Fancy new website!
🎟️ Socially distanced IRL screenings!
#LSFF2021
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It’s here - the 2022 LSFF programme is LIVE. From globally-submitted New Shorts to expansive special events curated by
@TAPEcollective
and partners. Whatever you're into, there's a screening for you at LSFF 2022 🥂
full programme >
programme highlights >>
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Today we're notifying all the shorties who've made it into
#LSFF2019
! Congrats, congrats, congrats and a big thank you to everybody who submitted - our programming team watched each & every film with care & consideration (keep on keeping on making cinema at a tolerable length!)
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"Sometimes we have to shout about the things we've done as female filmmakers, as it often takes more to have our voices heard."
Gems of wisdom from the women who've made it through shorts - from
@alicelowe
to
@TASHTUNG
- for
#FemaleFilmmakerFriday
:
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Pride is this weekend! And empty gestures are amok! So we're trying this out: we want to use our platform & loyal lil community of followers to signal boost
#LGBTQ
voices in short film - makers, writers, ev. in between! - we want names to keep eyes on. Pls contribute + share! ↓
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We're partnering with
@bfinetwork
to put LSFF 2021 filmmakers,
@LunaCarmoon
and Sophie Littman - both nominated for our Best British Short award - into conversation.
They'll discuss navigating From Funding to Festival. Join us this Friday 22nd, 11am
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Must-watch: a short film on the complexity of masculinity and mental health,
@thelaughingking
now available online
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A gentle reminder that our regular submission deadline is almost here! We're returning in January to bring our eclectic offering of films to London's big screens, & we want yours in consideration. (Don't forget we're
@BIFA_film
~and~
@BAFTA
qualifying!)
👉
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🗣️ We're looking for pre-selectors for our UK, international, animation and documentary submissions for LSFF 2021. Deadline for applications 20th March, early April start date:
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We're giving away 5 lots of tix to
@Jameson_UK
's premiere of their
#JamesonFirstShot
winning filmmakers,
@CentralPictureH
, 18/08! RT TO
#WIN
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> NEWS! We're pleased to announce the very talented
@becbecliuliu
will be leading our
@galdemzine
Film Criticism workshop for emerging women and non binary POC writers. Fri 18th Jan, 4pm
@horsehospital
, pay what you can + free networking drinks:
#LSFF2019
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12 days of Xmas means TWELVE DAYS OF PRIZES!
In anticipation of her
#LSFF2019
retrospective (), our
#BoxingDay
giveaway is a copy of
@coseyfannitutti
's much acclaimed memoir Art Sex Music, courtesy of
@FaberBooks
.
RT to
#WIN
!
#12DaysOfChristmas
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A programme of experimental docs with visuals you'll melt over & facts you'll wanna check. 14th Jan
@CentralPictureH
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From Coum transmission to
@ThrobbingGrstle
,
#LSFF2019
presents an evening with
@coseyfannitutti
. Known for collapsing the personal, experiential & abstract into music & art, catch her in convo with author
@JackSargeant23
, followed by DJ Sophie Coletta. Tix
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The 16th LSFF is in the diary for next January! Fancy your short on our big screen? Accepting submissions now on
@FilmFreeway
:
#LSFF2019
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This weekend, pop-up cinema, art, markets (and more!) take over Leytonstone town centre. All FREE! From a dog-friendly Isle of Dogs opener this Friday, to vintage John Smith and Hindi classic Pyaasa, through to a Sunday dose of Varda
#LeytonstoneLovesFilm
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"Deaf art should be about more than just a person’s Deafness. Many Deaf people have stories about their souls and life journeys that haven't yet been told."
Guest curator
@RinkooBarpaga
talks with us and
@getsubly
on access and intersectionality
#LSFF2021
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Aaaand we're live. Another year on, and we couldn't be more proud to announce the January 2024 London Short Film Festival programme, as well as a fresh new l00k.
Collaborations, filmmakers, new curators, new venues.
Take a look around >>
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🎊 ANNOUNCING the 59 global short films in LSFF 2021 competition, new cash prizes and our international jury - pioneering British-Nigerian filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah; “internationally revered, intersexed doyenne” of the arts Vaginal Davis + curator
@jasonryle
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📢 DEADLINE DAY! Last chance to get shorts submitted for the 17th
@BAFTA
and
@BIFA_film
-qualifying London Short Film Festival over on
@FilmFreeway
:
#LSFF2020
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ANNOUNCING our regional How To Deaf tour! We've 10 dates at local independents up and down the UK showing D/deaf shorts and stories, inclusive of all and fully accessible for D/deaf and HoH cinema-goers.
All the shorts showing, venues and dates:
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We're looking for a freelance graphic designer for LSFF 2020! Is this you? Is this someone you know?! Deadline Apr 3rd
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The
#LSFF2018
line-up is LIVE! Check out the incredible array of ground-breaking films, music, art and industry events we have waiting for you here:
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After last night's news, we're delaying
#LSFF2021
in-cinema events but are more excited than ever to be online this January and able to share with you 200+ of our favourite short form talents working today.
Join us virtually - from our new home, to yours!
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Calling all writers/aspiring critics!
We're looking for FIVE emerging/early-career writers/critics to create a response to this year's festival programme (this can include a diary-style blog).
Deadline is this Tuesday 16, 6pm.
All info:
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Best Documentary is taken by
@iamsamashby
's The Colour of His Hair (), an impressionistic meditation on queer life pre- and post- the Sexual Offences Acts of 1967
#LSFF2018
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We're straight back at it! Submissions are open for LSFF 2020. Get our Early Bird deadline April 22nd in the calendar:
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ANNOUNCING the 45 films in LSFF 2020 Competition. Presented in partnership with
@theipaper
and
@frieze_magazine
, to be deliberated on by our international jurors
@BALOJI
, Stacy Martin and
@lydiaohh
. Full prog launch Dec 3rd
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Next week we welcome 2 filmmakers from Canada - Kazik Radwanski
@redvineski
and Miryam Charles
@miryam_charles
, both singular filmmakers exploring the intimacies and intricacies of the human experience.
Join us
@ICALondon
for screenings & conversation.
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🎉 HAPPY NY FROM LSFF! 2019 the year you're storming the industry?
Today's prize is an LSFF Industry Week pass () of workshops + a Film & Animation Sketchbook &
@LWLies
' Guide to Making A Movie, courtesy of
@LaurenceKingPub
.
RT to get yourself set!
#WIN
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Filmmakers, we know the pandemic’s been hard on finances, so we're waiving our late entry fees for all submissions to LSFF 2021.
Our fees will stay the same (£28; £22 for
@FilmFreeway
Gold members) from now until submissions close on 24th August
#LSFF2021
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These really will be Big Shorts! LSFF&
@LOCOFilmFest
screen shorts at BFI IMAX, Mon 25 Apr. Ya can't get much bigger
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In anticipation of
#LSFF2019
's A Constellation Of Cosmic Queens () celebrating the women of Afrofuturism, we're giving away a
@riocinema
goody bag filled with a
@pagesofhackney
Octavia Butler-inspired book bundle!
Hit the RT to
#WIN
!
#12DaysOfChristmas
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Submissions for
@LSFF
2018 are now open for UK & International short films, exclusively on
@FilmFreeway
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A blow up cinema barge!
@lonetaxidermist
cake-sitting!
@lurie_john
on the Skype! Dykes for president! Video nasties! New shorts! The LSFF '19 programme is out, go browse
#LSFF2019
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Come get touchy feely with feminist film godmothers Chick Strand and
@barbarahammer
: a combined retrospective exploring softness on screen and off + Hammer in Skype Q&A w
@clubdesfemmes
, Saturday
#LSFF2018
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Countdown is on! 🕒🕔🕞 TWO DAYS to get your shorts into our early bird deadline, submissions open now on
@FilmFreeway
:
#LSFF2019
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We turn focus to the chronic underrepresentation of women behind the camera with a showcase of the immense
@illuminatrixLDN
roster. With
@katereidDp
,
@gabinorland
,
@edalesman
,
@maryfarbrother
++ in Q&A (plus free drinks!) this coming Monday:
#LSFF2019
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Experience the first London-based short film screenings on the real-life-big-screen🎞️
We're showing the best in shorts
@BFI
til Wed 30 Jun; this is an exciting chance to see work by:
#DanielKaluuya
,
@rizwanahmed
,
@LunaCarmoon
& more, join us!
Tickets:
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🏅 Ahead of our full programme launch on Monday, we're thrilled to announce our Jury for LSFF '22: Fiona Lamptey, Nick Rowland and María Palacios Cruz.
Each juror brings with them a unique and discerning perspective, with a wealth of experience and passion for short film.
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And we're live: the
#LSFF23
programme is out now.
New Shorts, Special Events, Industry (including a
@tapecollective
hub), and special retrospectives for our 20th edition.
Watch the trailer by
@AndrewKotting
now, w/descriptive subtitles by
@MatchboxCine
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Tonight is the
#LSFF2019
Awards, hosted by the fabulous
@TanyaFear
! This year’s deliberating jury, supported by
@British_Film
, was
@DokuFest
’s Samir Karahoda, producer
@Jacqui__Davies
and The Observer’s
@wendyide
(who couldn’t make it this eve!) 💫
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Presenting My Eye Is My Ear, a broad and brilliant spectrum of the D/deaf experience through short filmmaking and visual vernacular.
Guest-curated by
@RinkooBarpaga
, feat. BAFTA Breakthrough-er
@bim_ajadi
's BSL hip hop epic. Mon 18 Jan, just £5:
#LSFF2021
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Happy
#BSLRecognitionDay
! We’re very excited to be bringing D/deaf stories to screen with our nationwide
#LivesInSignLanguage
tour, fully tailored to Deaf and HoH audiences with supporting BSL and subtitles. Dates and locations:
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This January, we're very pleased to host the first UK cinema pilot of
@NationalTheatre
's smart caption glasses, a solution for D/deaf, deafened or hard of hearing audiences, at
@BFI
Southbank. All the info on what to expect and how to book, here:
#LSFF2020
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#Filmmakers
Start the New Year right - meet key contacts & gain up-to-the-minute industry insights at
#LSFFIndustry
Sessions on Funding, AR, Commissioning, Music Video, Artist Film + Happy Hour free beer at the end of every day!
Tickets from £6.60+BF
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Our first day of
#LSFF2019
’s Industry Week!
@British_Film
’s
@Jo_Duncs
,
@girlsinfilm_GIF
’s Nikola Vasakova,
@ElloWeezee
and
@Film_London
’s Jordan McGarry chat Short Form: More Than A Calling Card?
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How do we foster intimacy across the flatness of our screens?
@gabrielledlp
hosts discussion on the ways we seek community through gaming and virtual infrastructures with
@radiatoryang
,
@Joeahunting
+
@everestpipkin
.
Free! 16 Jan, 8.30pm, RSVP:
#LSFF2021
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Big congrats to
@LunaCarmoon
on the development of new feature film HOARD. Luna's shorts 'Nosebleed' and 'Shagbands' premiered at LFF and played at LSFF!
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Filmmakers! Spend tomorrow's morning coffee with LSFF 2021 filmmakers
@LunaCarmoon
(Shagbands) and Sophie Littman (Sudden Light) in conversation, hosted by
@bfinetwork
.
Free, 11am
#LSFF2021
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Discover some amazing British talent (and some LSFF alum!) in
@WeAreColony
's collection of award-winning shorts:
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Newly confirmed!
@BALOJI
will be in conversation with
@gaylene_g
following The Future Is Ours, a guest-curated cross section of experimental, contemporary African short cinema. Feat. Moustapha Alassane’s restored Samba le Grand.
Sat 18 Jan,
@ICALondon
:
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In partnership with the Stuart Hall Foundation, we present a screening and roundtable revisiting and reflecting on academic and activist Stuart Hall’s 1979 televisual essay, It Ain’t Half Racist, Mum
@ICALondon
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Punk, afropunk and feminism. An all-female panel, feat. the iconic Pauline Black. Friday 13th,
@Moth_Club
:
#LSFF2017
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Artist filmmakers! Win development monies for your film at
@BFI
's
#LFF
Experimenta Pitch
@LUXmovingimage
@FL_FLAMIN
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Be the early bird you want to see in the world. We're now accepting both UK and international submissions over on
@FilmFreeway
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We’re SO excited for our first screening with
@NationalTheatre
’s Smart Caption Glasses! An easy captioning solution for D/deaf & HoH cinema goers (that pops over the top of any glasses!) we’re rolling out across our UK competition progs this coming week:
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⏰ Time's almost up! ⏰ Our Late & very final deadline is 21 Aug over on
@FilmFreeway
:
#shortfilm
#filmmaking
#artsopp
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RT to
#WIN
2 tix to
@LOCOFilmFest
's Sunday showcase of web series & WoC filmmaking magik! Curated by
@SKMYcollective
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Our
#Bowie
programme is touring
@picturehouses
'
#DiscoverTuesdays
& 50p from every ticket goes to
@savechildrenuk
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We're into cutting it fine.
Short films welcome and time a-ticking on our regular deadline over at
@FilmFreeway
:
#LSFF2019
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You asked, we listened: we’re putting on a second screening of our sold out Funny Shit next Saturday
@ICALondon
! Short films, big laughs, links a-coming Monday morn
#LSFF2018
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Little film, meet big audience. We're already accepting early bird submissions for
#LSFF2019
, open on
@FilmFreeway
:
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